The GOP is working to keep eligible African-Americans from voting in several states.

[JohnWxy]

I should have posted this long ago, but I am posting as I criticize M$M a lot for not informing the public. I felt I should give credit where credit is due.

Good article here from Newsweek on Republican Voter suppression efforts - which we all know about but it's encouraging to see a mainstream magazine actually printing an article on this.


http://www.newsweek.com/id/158392

It was a mainstay of Jim Crow segregation: for 100 years after the Civil War, Southern white Democrats kept eligible blacks from voting with poll taxes, literacy tests and property requirements. Starting in the 1960s, the U.S. Supreme Court declared these assaults on the heart of American democracy unconstitutional.

Now, with the help of a 2008 Supreme Court decision, Crawford vs. Marion County (Indiana) Election Board, white Republicans in some areas will keep eligible blacks from voting by requiring driver's licenses. Not only is this new-fangled discrimination constitutional, it's spreading.
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Congratulations Newsweek (did this make it into the print magazine?)

[annabanana]

1. They have for decades, since the Voting Rights Act, specifically. .n/t

[JohnWxy]

2. This is not 'News' to DUers but it is 'News' when M$M covers it.